Baseball’s the buzz for kids at Bees Kids Clinic

SALT LAKE CITY – One hundred kids are trading in their sneakers for cleats, brushing up on their baseball skills alongside some of their favorite minor league players for the Bees Kids Clinic.

“Yeah!” one of the Salt Lake Bees players exclaimed as a kid tucks and rolls to catch a ground ball.

Whether it’s ground balls.

Fly balls.

“Oh yeah! Give me some!” another player yelled out across the field as a kid dives to the ground to catch a fly ball.

Pitching.

“Nice!” another player remarked after catching a ball thrown by one of the kids with his bare hand, “I’m going to have to go get a glove,” he laughed to himself.

Hitting.

“Swang it! Ding!” another players can be heard from the batting station.

Or just hanging in the Bees’ club house.

“What’s going on guys? Ready to check out the club house?” another player said to a group of kids donning their best baseball gear.

One hundred young baseball fans took on a new role Wednesday.

“It’s like a dream come true! He couldn’t sleep last night he was so excited to come and do this,” said Lisa Almberg referring to her 6-year-old son, Jackson.

“To them it’s almost mindboggling, they don’t realize how cool it is,” said Mathew Cahoon, the youth program coordinator for the Bees Kids Clinic.

Kids 12 and under took a step out of the stands and onto the field at Smith’s Ballpark.

“When you’re sitting up in the seats you don’t realize, you’re looking this way,” Cahoon said standing in the outfield. “You get out here and you look this way, there’s a lot of seats and it’s big league time,” he laughed.

Making some big league dreams come true at the Salt Lake Bees Kids Clinic.
“It’s like you’re playing the game right now,” smiled 6-year-old, Jackson Almberg.